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Category Archives: poetry

Mercury Rising

like an elephant i am with my face in my trunk & i’m digging through junk digging in the dirt i’m just trying to find all i left behind at the end of the beginning when i gave it all away shook hands with the devil in exchange for some brains i had mud on […]

Ragdoll

oh you devil you! the sunpuffed days of spring are here & we are all haloed & hallowed so– meet me by the rabbitpatch in your grabbity finest take my hand & kiss me underneath the velvet tree oh you sweet swift pixie you! with our heads on fire & our dancefilled pants let’s let […]

Bubblegumbo

vagabond vagabond oh velvet rush of flesh, flesh & bone, skin & bone kiss skin swimming starlight ocean rush of green, green velvet, green fuse, flash of green, green skin, green flesh, flesh is grass, green grass, green glass, skin is glass, ocean flesh, glass & bone, fish & grass, oceanic, wash of green, green […]

Jump Cut

i really wish i could be the boy in that frame the one in old-movie grey all manhattan-sharp & paris-smooth the boy you constantly study but instead i just stand here quiet & small cudgeled by my kansas banalities & you dance like a spider on fire i swear i could never move like that […]

Burning Down the Candy

you are the glorious one i can see through my eyes the statue in the palace the goddess in the temple the fire that burns in the rainy night & i’m walking down the street in the middle of the day trying to think of all the words i can say to remind you of […]

Getting Busy With the Orange

marmalade marmalade marmalade i rub my hands together like a fly thinking of love love love unrestrained by the crests of oceanic fears & the cute hairdresser in the seashell dress dreams outloud at night in shouts & fits marmalade marmalade marmalade i’m in a terrible jam because i’m the hepcat with the comicbook heart […]